Sydney Smith
Writer
"If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth."
Rapture quotes
Rapture
20 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Poet, Educator
"The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain."
Joseph Campbell
Mythologist, Writer, Lecturer
"We're all seeking...the rapture of being alive."
Charles Churchill
Poet, Playwright
"Who all in raptures their own works rehearse, And drawl out measur'd prose, which they call verse."
Bertolt Brecht
Playwright, Poet
"What rapture, oh, it is to know A good thing when you see it And having seen a good thing, oh, What rapture 'tis to flee it."
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"There is no rapture in the love which is prompted by esteem; such affection is lasting, not passionate."
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